WinForms (3)

From time to time you need to show a disabled control within DataGridView control. As you might already know, a grid cell has ReadOnly property which is not useful for the case because controls still looks enabled even if they are placed in disabled cell.

I’d like to share with the tool I wrote when stacked with selecting an appropriate color for some border of a new control. I hope it will relieve you when you be confused choosing a better color for whatever application you do for windows.

Implementation of a database connection dialog with full set of features which you can see when look at the same dialog in Visual Studio is not the easiest tasks. It includes many aspects such as servers enumeration and database enumeration. Visual Studio SDK allows you to create such a dialog in several minutes.